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Registered charity · Berkshire

Friends of the Nations' Libraries

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £458k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.fnl.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£458k£480k
  • 2024£766k£753k
  • 2023£584k£377k
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£1.4m
  • 2021£16m£15m
Charitable objects

THE PURCHASE OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS AS GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL LIBRARIES.(THE EXPRESSION "NATIONAL LIBRARIES" IS UNDERSTOOD PRIMARILY TO MEAN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND THE NATIONAL LIBRARIES OF SCOTLAND AND WALES; BUT THE SOCIETY WILL BE FREE, AS OCCASION ARISES, TO ASSIST ALSO UNIVERSITY, MUNICIPAL AND OTHER LIBRARIES TO SECURE PRINTED BOOKS OR MANUSCRIPTS WHICH HAVE SPECIAL INTEREST FOR THEM).

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.6y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance
3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Education/training 3Environment/conservation/heritage 2General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 8Business services 4Education 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£458k latest income

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
313020
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION DATED 1932 AS AMENDED 1958, 1961, 1962, AND 14TH JULY 1977 as amended on 13 Dec 2019 as amended on 19 Jun 2024
Contact on the register
01491598083 · admin@fnlmail.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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